Tom Bridgeland

Thomas Andrew Bridgeland FRS (born 1973) is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Sheffield.

Bridgeland was educated at Shelley High School in Huddersfield and Christ's College, Cambridge where he studied the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos graduating with first class Bachelor of Arts degree with honours in Mathematics in 1995. He completed his PhD at the University of Edinburgh, where he also stayed for a postdoctoral research position.

His research interest is algebraic geometry, focusing on properties of derived categories of coherent sheaves on algebraic varieties.His most-cited papers are on stability conditions, on triangulated categoriesand K3 surfaces; in the first he defines the idea of a 'stability condition' on a triangulated category, and demonstrates that the set of all stability conditions on a fixed category form a manifold, whilst in the second he describes one connected component of the space of stability conditions on the bounded derived category of coherent sheaves on a complex algebraic K3 surface.

Bridgeland's research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

Bridgeland won the Adams Prize in 2007 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014. His nomination reads